10) Washington Black: A Novel by Esi Edugyan (2018)
9) Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian (2019)
8) Turbulence: A Novel by David Szalay (2019)
7) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)
6) The Quiet American by Graham Greene (1959)
5) Millennium: How Civilization Has Changed over a Thousand Years by Ian Mortimer (2014)
4) 1984 by George Orwell (1948)
3) Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang (2019)
2) Lord of the Flies by William Golding (1954)
Drum roll please.
1) The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry (1967)